https://www.firstsentier-mufg-sustainability.com/insight/sou...
Could someone in academia educate me on the need to patent inventions like this ? is it just part of the university funding machine ? or would the researchers be using this as a defensive measure ?
I have been selling my extremely high quality plastic clothing (Veillance made in Canada items and Canada Goose) and been replacing them with wool and cotton.
Ventille cotton can keep you dry without plastic. Developed in WW2 by the UK for hoses and buckets when rubber was in short supply. Wanted cotton is another option but doesn’t breathe.
Mover - a Swiss brand - have an entire range of plastic free clothes of high quality.
Tons of other options but the above are easy substitutes at the high end.
Bonus, unlike even the best plastics these age beautifully and there are no taped seams to degrade.
apparent•1mo ago
I'm surprised it's this little (half a kilo in an entire year). I'd be curious to know where it ranks, since the language is a little sensational and not especially accurate. For example, it would be true if on a global scale, it were the 6th leading contributor, but numbers 1-5 were each 10x as much.
dogma1138•1mo ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if a large part of that 500g are due to the use of detergent pods.
If anything that 500g is an astronomically high number even for a family of 4.